Read UC Trade Secret Basics and answer the following questions:
Q #1 – What law governs trade secrets?
Q #2 – What are the tree basic characteristics of a trade secret?
Q #3 – Describe two types of conduct that could constitute misappropriation of a trade secret.
Q #4 – What are the remedies available for misappropriation of a trade secret?
Q #5 – List and describe two defenses to a claim of trade secret misappropriation
Q #6 – Explain the “prior restraint” doctrine.Read UC Patent Basics. Note that the mere fact that a patent is issued for an invention is not a guarantee of commercial success – you need only look at the patent for the birthing table, an actual US patent granted in 1965, for an example of a patented invention that never achieved commercial success. Answer the following questions:
Q #7 – What are the differences between a utility patent and a design patent?
Q #8 – What is one advantage of trade secret protection over patent protection? What is one disadvantage? (look back at two documents listed in the week #2 module for help in answering these questions – the UC IP Learning Objectives and the UC Approach to Analyzing IP Issues)Reinforcement Questions (for material covered in prior weeks):
Q #9 – List and explain the four factors that must be considered in each fair use case.
Q #10 – Looking at slide #11 in the WFH.pptx document in the week #3 module, is the musical composition created by Mark(Marty) work for hire? Why or why not? Would your answer be different if he created a motion picture instead of a musical composition? Why or
